# How high could I jump if my legs were as powerful as a house cat's hind legs?

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**Created:** [December 22, 2003, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-could-i-jump-if-my-legs-were-as-powerful-as-a-house-cats-hind-legs/220421 "2003-12-22T06:24:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-could-i-jump-if-my-legs-were-as-powerful-as-a-house-cats-hind-legs/220421/82 "2003-12-22T15:21:23Z")

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> That’s nearly 3 times what your cites have claimed and you’ve seen how kangaroos jump: there’s no way it scrambled up there.

1. Have you read the thread? Several times I and others have pointed out that human high-jumpers clear comparable heights despite being unable to jump more than 1 meter by pivoting the centre of gravity. There seems to be absolutely no doubt that humans cannot jump higher than 1 metre. It has been studied in some detail.

2. Have you ever seen a kangaroo jump a high fence? The always scramble in their own bipedal fashion. In fact one of the traditional roo fencing techniques in Australia is a double strand of barb over the sheep netting. The animals always land atop the fence and so often become tangled in the bard and die.

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